Megaprojects Magnitogorsk: The Soviet City Built from Scratch Posted: February 4, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 In the 1930s, the Soviet government decided it wanted to build a perfect modern ...

As Schlögel writes in his chapter on Magnitogorsk, ‘it is scarcely possible to conceive ... The disintegration of the Soviet Union was seen as surprisingly peaceful at the time. But it may be that the ...

The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country and had a major influence on 20th-century history — and still has an influence today. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News. His cause of ...

It was to be called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. On Dec. 30, 1922, in a meeting at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater of Communist delegates from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Caucasus ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago Press Beginning in the 1940s, the Soviets ...